[rescue] Speaking of Sbus cards

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 09:03 PM, Larry Snyder wrote:
>>    There are two types of endplates...one with two screw holes, and 
>> one
>> with two little ears that stick up.  The latter is the older type, the
>> former appeared with (I think) SS10 systems.  Some cards have a little
>> plate that screws on via those screw holes and two tiny philips-head
>> screws, and that plate provides the ears in the shape of the older
>> cards' end plates.  In SS10 and later systems, you'd remove that top
>> piece with the ears and screw the board into the machine, but I've
>> never known anyone to actually screw them in, and I certainly don't.
>
> I have and it works out just fine....

   I wasn't trying to suggest that screwing them in was *bad*...just 
useless. :)

    -Dave

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